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Trump’s legal problems should disappear

President-elect Donald Trump he still has criminal cases pursuing him.

A hush money case in New York, an election interference case in Georgia, a federal classified documents case in Florida and a Jan. 6 federal case in Washington, D.C. Experts say it’s likely these cases will disappear or won’t go anywhere now.

“Trump’s legal team will make an argument, look, if you’re in the transition if you’re the president-elect, no criminal case will move forward,” former U.S. Attorney John P. Fishwick, Jr. told the National News Desk. .

Trump vowed to fire special adviser Jack Smith if he wins the presidency again. Smith was in charge of Trump’s ongoing federal cases, but reports indicate that Trump won’t have the chance to get rid of Smith. The DOJ is would have seeks to end these affairs before Trump takes office.

Sentencing in Trump’s hush money case in New York is scheduled for November 26. His lawyers had previously requested that the charges be dismissed, and it is likely that even if the sentencing were to go forward, they would request a delay.

He’s an elderly man, he has no criminal history, he’s president of the United States, he was just re-elected president of the United States, I think the judge can’t give him a sentence of prison, but I guess anything is possible,” Fishwick. Jr. said.

Trump’s election interference case in Georgia was already on hold, with his lawyers trying to remove the prosecutor, Fani Willis. She was re-elected on Tuesday, but Trump’s re-election will likely stop the matter in its tracks.